"According to a timeline provided by White House, then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn briefed the president about the operation Jan. 25 over a dinner that included Vice President Mike Pence, Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and top security aides, but not in the Situation Room, as had been the common practice under previous administrations."
If the President gets the proper briefing from the people needed to make sure he has all the information he needs to approve the mission then does it matter where he gets it? So it was over dinner. By all accounts the people he needed to hear from were there. Does it matter that it wasn't in the Situation Room?
And this:
"At the time of the raid, Trump was not in the Situation Room, where he would have been directly involved in monitoring developments."
Was Obama in the Sit Room during each and every Seal raid? I doubt it. The decision had been made. The proper people were in the Situation Room during the raid. President Trump was being kept abreast of the goings on. What difference does it make that he wasn't there in person?
Obama’s leaking decimated the ENTIRE Seal Team Six. How about that?
At least Trump didn’t have to be called in off the golf course to watch it, like Obama did during the Bin Laden raid.
Obama cancelled that 3 times, until Leon Panetta asked him “under what circumstances would you approved this?”- then he made sure those were met, and then told the moron-in-chief only after the operation started, so he could not cancel it again.
I also heard a version where he wanted to stop it but Panetta told him he would go public if he did.
Then the dumba$$ went and claimed all the credit “when HE gave the order...”
Owens, also a military veteran, was troubled by Trump’s harsh treatment of a Gold Star family during his presidential campaign.
I have to add that no one forced this young man to become a SEAL, and I think everyone understands that you run the risk of dying in that job. To blame the president shows the kind of stupid, immature thinking rampant among liberal minds.
Am I wrong? Wasn’t this operation planned before Trump even took office?
If this Miami Herald report has any inkling of truth, then this patriot son was not like his father.
President Trump is one of the most patriotic military supporting presidents that has been seen in our lifetimes. And this father does not have the good sense to put the flag before his sick democrat views.
In time, people like this will marginalize themselves to deep irrelevance.
So he’s blaming PRESIDENT Trump?
This guy sounds like another Cindy Sheehan but with only one boob.
Yep. The media will take this father and will attempt to make him the new face of suffering.
Hussein is to blame.
President Trump was right in approving the mission.
It has been in the news that the purpose of this mission was to grab a high ranking enemy.
This person escaped.
The mission was thus a failure.
That is not President Trump’s fault.
It has been reported that the enemy realized they were about to be attacked and prepared accordingly.
They started sending out radio/telephone signals saying they were going to be attacked.
These transmissions were intercepted by us and given to the Commander of this raid.
The Commander of the raid chose to continue the mission.
This person needs to be examined.
The training program that produced this Commander should be examined.
It could be that the Commander made the right decision. I hope the material they picked up was worth it.
The Democrats tried to make this about President Trump.
Again, President Trump was right to approve this mission.
Where was Bonzo on the night of 09-11-2012? I wonder how this guy feels about what happened to Navy SEALS, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, as Clintoonie ignored their pleas for help. I'm sorry. This is just more snowflake bull****.
Sad that we had this loss.
The father of this fine SEAL is a fool.
This is just my personal observation but in the past several years all of the SEALs that I have read about who were killed were 35-37 years old. Its like the NFL you get to a certain age and you lose a step.
I think that they are letting these guys stay in too long. Its not like being in the regular Military on a ship or a base. Its so much more dangerous and physically and mentally challenging.
The President is not in the situation room during every Seal or Delta force raid. Many are never made public.
I notice the article references the helicopter ‘crash’ (shootdown) where 17 SEALs died in 2011, after the Bin Laden raid. I wonder if it crossed this father’s mind that it was a bit odd that so many SEALs were on the same helicopter? I guess there’s no questioning those you support.
All three Paki IT brothers were in place before this raid and one of the three was in place prior to the Extortion 17 shoot down.
A bigger problem is somehow the enemy knew we were coming.
The son is a hero, the father is a political coward.
The left is desperate for President Trump to criticize this guy.
...nothing about big mouth Biden outing seal team 6 after they got bin azzhole